Experimental characterization of fault-tolerant circuits in small-scale quantum processors
Experimental characterization of fault-tolerant circuits in small-scale quantum processors
Experiments conducted on open-access cloud-based IBM Quantum devices are presented for characterizing their fault tolerance using $[4,2,2]$-encoded gate sequences. Up to 100 logical gates are activated in the "IBMQ Bogota" and "IBMQ Santiago" devices and we found that a [4,2,2] code's logical gate set may be deemed fault-tolerant for gate sequences larger than 10 gates. However, certain circuits did not satisfy the fault tolerance criterion. In some cases the encoded-gate sequences show a high error rate that is lower bounded at approximately 0.1, whereby the error inherent in these circuits cannot be mitigated by classical post-selection. A comparison of the experimental results to a simple error model reveal that the dominant gate errors cannot be readily represented by the popular Pauli error model. Finally, it is most accurate to assess the fault tolerance criterion when the circuits tested are restricted to those that give rise to an output state with a low dimension.
Quantum error correction codes, encoded gates, fault tolerant circuit, ibm quantum, quantum circuits, quantum gates
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Cane, Rosie
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Chandra, Daryus
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Ng, Soon Xin
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Hanzo, Lajos
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6 December 2021
Cane, Rosie
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Chandra, Daryus
d629163f-25d0-42fd-a912-b35cd93e8334
Ng, Soon Xin
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Hanzo, Lajos
66e7266f-3066-4fc0-8391-e000acce71a1
Cane, Rosie, Chandra, Daryus, Ng, Soon Xin and Hanzo, Lajos
(2021)
Experimental characterization of fault-tolerant circuits in small-scale quantum processors.
IEEE Access, 9, .
(doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3133483).
Abstract
Experiments conducted on open-access cloud-based IBM Quantum devices are presented for characterizing their fault tolerance using $[4,2,2]$-encoded gate sequences. Up to 100 logical gates are activated in the "IBMQ Bogota" and "IBMQ Santiago" devices and we found that a [4,2,2] code's logical gate set may be deemed fault-tolerant for gate sequences larger than 10 gates. However, certain circuits did not satisfy the fault tolerance criterion. In some cases the encoded-gate sequences show a high error rate that is lower bounded at approximately 0.1, whereby the error inherent in these circuits cannot be mitigated by classical post-selection. A comparison of the experimental results to a simple error model reveal that the dominant gate errors cannot be readily represented by the popular Pauli error model. Finally, it is most accurate to assess the fault tolerance criterion when the circuits tested are restricted to those that give rise to an output state with a low dimension.
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Experimental Characterization of Fault-Tolerant Circuits in Small-Scale Quantum Processors
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Accepted/In Press date: 5 December 2021
Published date: 6 December 2021
Keywords:
Quantum error correction codes, encoded gates, fault tolerant circuit, ibm quantum, quantum circuits, quantum gates
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Local EPrints ID: 453228
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/453228
ISSN: 2169-3536
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